Full Body Scanners? - Why Bother?

Posted by Barney Griggs at 12/30/2009 10:39 PM
Categories: Opinion
Tags: body full scan fly airport airline security
Here we are at the end of another year and yet another s***head from Al Quaeda is trying to blow himself up, not with a bomb in his shoe, but this time with a bomb in his underwear. So what can we glean from this?
  • This guy, an obvious loser, even failed at his suicide attempt and lived through it. I guess he should be glad he didn't succeed a little better and blow off his wiener. (I'm stifling a giggle, sorry!)
  • Our government's mammoth security net so far has only been able to find Janet Napolitano and she was nailed in the CNN green room by Dick Cheney who was so enraged that the Director actually slipped in a puddle of slobber that had dropped from his jiggling jowls.
  • So now that this Nigerian malefactor has been captured, quite by accident apparently (a savvy passenger noticed him setting his drawers on fire), amid much finger-pointing, back-biting, political grandstanding, nay-saying, back-pedaling, posturing, explaining, excusing, and threatening, the best solution any of the experts can come up with is full body scans of every single airline passenger.
I guess my thought is that it would be a lot easier, less expensive, and certainly more interesting if all passengers simply were required to fly naked. While radical in its inception, I think this is a concept that might have some legs.

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  • 1/1/2010 7:09 AM David Lutz wrote:
    I'm with you on that Barney but why stop at naked, as there was another attempted assassin who had concealed the explosives within his body? A full body cavity search for all people plus luggage traveling on separate planes in heavy armor is the answer. As this is too absurd, I suggest we develop a Peace Dept., spending a measly 1% of current "Defense Dept" and Homeland Security and try to make friends rather than develop enemies out of the thousands who want to destroy America. It's impossible and stupid to try and police every little foxhole on earth and I fail to see the sanity in jumping into the quagmire of Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, Iran, N. Korea, Iraq.... I can go on and on! I just hope America wakes up before we spend ourselves into oblivion with needless "security measures" that only soothe the fearful until the next "security breach".
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